Your strangest or most amusing experience in a fast food establishment?

[macallan25]

Ordered 55 #1s from Whataburger around 3:00 in the morning for a bunch of people.........by myself. Needless to say they were pissed, but then I tipped the entire kitchen about 20$ a piece so that made it just fine.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Ordered 55 #1s from Whataburger around 3:00 in the morning for a bunch of people.........by myself. Needless to say they were pissed, but then I tipped the entire kitchen about 20$ a piece so that made it just fine.

Hahaha you are such a hero! If you'd done that when I was working at KFC I seriously would have kissed you.
Out of curiosity, what is a #1 at Whataburger? They're not in New England.

[Dionysus]

My mother drank a large soda from a certain FF place, and noticed something rattling around when she finished...it was a soda fountain paddle!

[SWTXBelle]

Oh! Oh! Now I remember - I DO have a story!
I was going on a date to The Alley theatre in Houston. My date was a poor starving college student, so we decided to just grab a burger before the show. This was in the 80s when downtown was DEAD. We drove - and drove - and the neighborhood got scary looking - but we found a brick burger place. You placed your order, then sat down and waited for them to call your number. We were one of two groups in the place. Suddenly, the doors flew open, and two guys in leather jackets (looked like extras from West Side Story!) burst in, and began rolling around on the floor trying to stab each other with knives.
The other group continued to eat.
Suddenly, we hear our number called. Unfazed by the fighting, the cook continues to call our number until Ken gets up, jumps over the thrashing guys, and gets our food. I can take about 2 bites before I say "This is crazy. We have to get out of here." So we grab our food, and run to the door, jumping over the still-tangled fighters.
And then to top it off, poor Ken got a speeding ticket going to the theatre. I wonder why he never called me again. . . .

[OneTimeSBX]

^^^lmao! that is like something out of a movie!

[PeppyGPhiB]

Well, this isn't fast food, but an experience from when I was working in a restaurant one summer when I was 17.

I was a hostess, but on one day the restaurant was really busy and short handed with wait staff. One of the waitors asked me to help him by taking a table's food out to them, which I was happy to do. Well, the table was full of businessmen (in their 30s I'd say) out to lunch, and when I asked them if I could get them anything else, one of them says to me, "How 'bout a hot tub and a rub down?" I was totally speechless and embarrassed...and you could see that his coworkers were that he had just said that to a teenage waitress at their business lunch!

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by centaur532

Hahaha you are such a hero! If you'd done that when I was working at KFC I seriously would have kissed you.
Out of curiosity, what is a #1 at Whataburger? They're not in New England.

Cheeseburger, fries, and a drink.

[SWTXBelle]

Whataburger . . .always makes me think of my grandparents in Tyler. That was our special treat when we visited them in the 70's. Nothing much in Tyler then - but boy howdy has it grown.

[AGDee]

Back in the college days, the White Castle near campus was open all night and was THE place to go after fraternity parties. The homeless people also hung out there all night. It was just insane in there every weekend night. The thought of White Castle now makes me nauseous...

[honeychile]

Speaking of White Castle: my parents were in a small town where that was THE only fast food restaurant, and were choking down a burger when they overheard the waitress yell over the phone, "Where's my lunch shift help? You don't think I'm going to eat here, do you?!" They left.

My friend's psycho ex-husband broke his leg trying to kick her dog when she was leaving him, ending up in a cast almost to his groin. Her brother was there, and the ex told everyone that her brother broke his leg (wuss!). The ex was at Wendy's when her brother came in, and her brother decided to be a man and say something like, "We both know I didn't break your leg, but I am sorry that you're laid up like that." The psycho ex started screaming, "He broke my leg! He broke my leg!" until another customer said, "Shut up or I'll break your other one!"

It became one of my favorite "divorce wars stories"!

[Jill1228]

Originally Posted by honeychile

My friend's psycho ex-husband broke his leg trying to kick her dog when she was leaving him, ending up in a cast almost to his groin.

It became one of my favorite "divorce wars stories"!

Don't you friggin' love Karma?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Whataburger . . .always makes me think of my grandparents in Tyler. That was our special treat when we visited them in the 70's. Nothing much in Tyler then - but boy howdy has it grown.

Haha, I am from Tyler. Grandparents moved there in the early 70's when grandad founded the Neurosurgery Institute at ETMC.

Shoot me a PM, wouldn't surprise me if they knew each other or something.

[navane]

Back when I was about 10 years old, I had an embarassment at the Jack-in-a-Box burger place by my house. My grandparents had been visiting us one afternoon and my whole family had gone out together to enjoy the afternoon. Afterwards, my parents headed home while my sister and I rode with our grandparents. Since we were a little hungry, we stopped at JitB to pick up some burgers for everyone.

When we got there, we found out that they were having a 25 cent hamburger promotion. My grandparents got excited and decided to order 24 hamburgers, four for each of us. My sister and I thought that seemed like too many; but grandma assured us that we could freeze any leftover burgers. I don't know...I guess that's a depression era mentality for ya.

Of course, seeing there were only four of us standing there, the guy behind the counter gave us a funny look. What really embarassed me was hearing the cook in the back counting, "2....4....6....8...10...12....12! <sigh> We need 12 more!!"

We ended up carrying out some five bags of hamburgers.


.....Kelly

[JonInKC]

One of my best friends from high school had worked at McDonalds for a time. One evening when we were both up to no good as usual, he persuaded one of his former co-workers in the drive-thru to give him a headset. Then we sat in the parking lot and told people trying to order that we were out of hamburger meat or if they ordered two number threes we would say "why don't you just get one number six" and stuff like that. When we went inside he gave the headset back to one of the workers and the manager came up there yelling at him to get out and that if he ever came back he was trespassing and blah blah blah. Of course, he's the sort of guy that you can't tell anything so he started yelling back at her. Good times.

[Kevlar281]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Cheeseburger, fries, and a drink.

Actually it's a Whataburger, Fries and a drink. Cheese costs extra.